Gavin’s Digital Diner

While there are lots of consumer-level products to manage digital images, photographs and the like, institutional options, it seems, are not that plentiful. Moreover, those options that do exist tend to cost a pretty penny. I don’t mean Adobe “Album” and Picassa. They’re wonderful products; I use Picassa myself. It’s great for an individual, but [...]

I was settling in to my seat on the 767-400; tucking away all the detritus that one travels with in today’s world – squirreling away my cheap paperback, iPod, and headphones in the seatback in front of me, throwing the blanket on the floor, and stuffing the pillow between me and the armrest. I travel [...]

One of the unanticipated side effects of trying to steep myself in Web 2.0 technology — my experiential dive into the world of digital media, of social networking, of Tags, and Blogs, and other fun stuff — is that I accidently rediscovered music. Rest assured, I’m not ready, yet, to turn myself into a Glyph, [...]

[Here's the text of a message about the impending DST change I posted on the Riders-Tech list a few weeks ago. Several people had asked me about it, and I figured it made more sense to post this than keep sending it out as email.]

[Note: Because of system troubles, this was also posted on my [...]

[Here's my follow up message on the DST change from around Valentine's Day (and nobody sent me flowers, even!)]

[Note: Because of system troubles, this was also posted on my old Typepad Blog – so if you're experiencing a vague sense of déjà vu… this would be the reason]

 Dear friends:

It was a couple of weeks ago.  [...]

I’ve always been vaguely uncomfortable with folksonomies. There is something about the concept that just doesn’t sit right with me. Every time I hear people wax on about them, I fidget in my seat; I feel kind of itchy and unsettled at the same time. Perhaps it’s my latent, [...]

Just a couple of updates to my original Blackberry Modem Mash:

After a few experiments on a few different machines, it does appear that you need both the Blackberry Device Manager and the Blackberry Desktop, and they both have to be running.
In a field test (I was in a hotel), it took both. It [...]

It’s a cold, windy Saturday so I decided to check out the rumor that one could blog directly from the new version of Word (Office 2007). Since I’ve been putting stuff up on the Digital Diner, I’ve discovered the following:

Typing these things online is a drag.
Cutting and pasting them from Word seems to [...]

I was recently doing some background research on the costs and affordability of using 3G for internet connectivity in South Africa.  Well, as these things tend to happen, that research got me thinking about similar options in the U.S. And, that reminded me that I’ve always meant to try using EDGE now that I have [...]

Every once in a while I stumble across useful tools, things I want in my bag of tricks.  Hamachi is one of those tools.  (Why is it called Hamachi?  Hamachi = Tuna = which sounds like tunnel? That’s a guess.)
With Hamachi, at first blush, you’re left with the question: what do I do with it.  [...]